BitBOINC

Just wanted to say thank you for the great projects. You really have brought life back into my crunching experience. I appreciate your openness, responsiveness, and thoughtfulness on creating such an interesting combination of grid computing projects. I also very much appreciate giving the crunchers credit, open science, and all of the cool publications that you post. I have transitioned all of my rigs to this project. Keep up the good work! I'm genuinely excited to see where this goes.

Thank you stay tuned for new projects to be added.

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In reply to Alperen Yavuz's message of 9 Oct 2026:

Thank you stay tuned for new projects to be added.

You're not going to stop anytime soon, aren't you? That's amazing! )
We may need a separate status page for projects started. "6 from XX are running" or something like that ))

BitBOINC are becoming quite an event in recent BOINC history. Sure, we didn't expect that coming.
Keep up the great work!

My compliments too for your great work. Everything looks so good. Well done ! Keep it up ! ciao

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Can you tell us about yourself, and what got your into making this project?

In reply to Weber462's message of 16 Oct 2026:

Can you tell us about yourself, and what got your into making this project?

Two months ago, I lost my job after Yandex withdrew from Turkey. My role involved analyzing datasets for LLMs and monitoring data-scraping platforms, which was somewhat similar to a DevOps role. I was also responsible for applying ethical, social, and moral constraints to the datasets being generated. You could say I was a kind of AI ethics specialist.

I suddenly found myself with a lot of free time. I'm someone who wants to live life to the fullest and gets bored easily, so having so much time on my hands wasn't exactly ideal. I started looking for something meaningful to do because I was getting bored at home. In Turkey, it often feels like there are very few opportunities to pursue hobbies freely or meaningfully. Sometimes, the country feels like an enormous prison.

While browsing Binance, I came across the idea of BTC puzzles. I realized I could integrate them into the BOINC ecosystem and turn them into something more sustainable. I started investigating other BTC puzzle projects, examining their methods, implementations, and approaches. Over the next two months, I used GLM and Big Pickle to develop and test my software. The existing tools were extremely inefficient, so I decided to build my own custom system. That's also why I don't publicly release the source code of my BTC puzzle tools: I don't want others simply copying my work.

Once I had everything ready, I launched the project.

While working on it, I had also requested Einstein@Home's source code from the project administrators and started exploring it. I became interested in whether there might be better search methods for gamma-ray pulsar searches, among other things. I went through scientific websites, wikis, and technical documentation, eventually discovering several abandoned projects that still had worthwhile scientific potential.

The raw data and other relevant materials were publicly available in many cases. When something wasn't published, I could often obtain it simply by emailing the people responsible for the project. I was genuinely pleased to find that researchers were willing to share their data.

I then used Claude's science capabilities to identify suitable methods for analyzing these datasets. After that, I developed the necessary programs using Claude Code and GLM.

Getting these programs to produce correct results was extremely difficult. I have no formal education in mathematics or physics, but I managed to work through the problems by using LLMs trained for different purposes. I then compared my results with those produced by existing software to verify their accuracy.

I also found two physicists working in academia who were knowledgeable about these subjects and tried to discuss my work with them. I asked whether the data I was generating could be useful. Their feedback was encouraging: they said the datasets could have scientific value, but recommended publishing the direct output of my programs rather than only sharing analyzed results. That way, scientists could use the data for their own research purposes without having to repeat the computationally expensive calculations themselves. They made it clear that this wasn't a pointless exercise.

The day I received that feedback, I activated all the projects and started publishing the results on Zenodo.

I'm not an academic or a scientist, and I don't claim to be one. In my country, access to positions in universities and public institutions often seems reserved for privileged social groups, particularly those with established socioeconomic advantages. Given my circumstances, I see what I'm doing primarily as a hobby that might nevertheless produce something useful.

I have a friend with a master's degree in computer science who helped me fix some C code. He also pointed out that all this data could be an excellent resource for AI training. In fact, using the data for that purpose was something I had already considered when I first started the project.

And I suppose that's pretty much the whole story. There's nothing particularly extraordinary about it. You don't have to be a professional scientist to work on a scientific project or contribute something potentially useful.

If we ever discover something genuinely significant, I can write a paper and try to publish it in an appropriate non-peer-reviewed journal or other suitable venue. Beyond that, I'm always open to hearing ideas, suggestions, and constructive criticism, and I do my best to evaluate them seriously.

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Just got my Silver badge (Planodia results completed - 100). I hated being a "Faint Dip" :).

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